Compiling and running an entire poject from command line/terminal on Linux

[tech291083]

Hi,

I am Fedora Core 5 32+ bit os. I am a self taught guy and currently trying to get my head around the basics of C++ programming. I am at the moment using the command prompt only, to compile and run the small programs written in C++. Just a while ago I came across this site and something caught my attention, that was nothing else but some really basic interfaces consisting of menus, buttons etc written in C++. So I downloaded some of the code which was in zip format and unzipped the whole thing in a folder. Here is the web page.

http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/controls/menu/

I have attached the screen shot/image (it is from my other machine which has Win xp just to show people here) to this post showing just how many different types of files the unzipped package/source code contains. I am still not used to any particular IDEs on Linux in order to be able to put all these files in one big project. So I was wondering if I keep them all in one folder as they are at the moment on my Linux machine and compile + run them from the command line/terminal itself without using any particular IDEs that work with Linux for example the Eclipse one. Thanks .....

[anonxyz]

Perhaps you should search information about makefile tutorial.

It is possible to compile the whole project from command line without any X-windos.

Only certain python related application programs that need X-Windows during "./configure" process.

For menu using text mode, perhaps you can use Winlib and linux-conio library.

[tech291083]

Perhaps you should search information about makefile tutorial.

It is possible to compile the whole project from command line without any X-windos.

Only certain python related application programs that need X-Windows during "./configure" process.

For menu using text mode, perhaps you can use Winlib and linux-conio library.

thanks a lot mate. very good info provided...